Economics
The World Bank's Trade and Development Series
The purpose of the World Bank's Trade and Development Series is to provide objective, accessible information about the new trade agenda and to encourage an informed dialogue about the role of trade in development, particularly for the world's poorest countries. Titles in the Trade and Development Series cover a wide range of topics, from regional trade agreements and customs reform to agriculture, intellectual property rights, services, and other key issues currently being discussed in World Trade Organization negotiations. Contributors to the series represent some of the world's leading thinkers and specialists on international trade issues, including individuals not employed by the Bank.
The Impact of Macroeconomic Policies on Poverty and Income Distribution:
Macro-Micro Evaluation Techniques and Tools
Edited by: François Bourguignon, Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva and Maurizio Bussolo
This volume assembles methodologies and techniques to evaluate the poverty impact of macroeconomic policies. It deals with evaluating the impact of macro-economic policies or shocks on poverty and income distribution using cutting-edge approaches, presenting a comprehensive array of modern micro-simulation techniques.
July 2008
Hardback £50.00
Paperback £30.00
The International Migration of Women
Maurice Schiff
The current share of women in the world's international migrant population is close to one half. Despite the great number of female migrants, there has until recently been a striking lack of gender analysis in the economic literature on international migration and development. This volume makes a valuable contribution in this context by providing eight new studies focusing on the nexus between gender, international migration and economic development.
December 2007
Hardback £55.00
Paperback £24.99
International Migration, Economic Development, and Policy
Çaglar Özden and Maurice Schiff
This second research volume produced adds to the first volume by expanding the number of countries covered, and by providing thinking on new topics in the field of international migration. This volume presents nine additional studies covering countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, North America, South Asia and the Pacific, as well as Western Europe.
August 2007
Hardback £60.00
Paperback £25.99
Globalization for Development - Revised Edition
Trade, Finance, Aid, Migration and Policy
Ian A. Goldin and Kenneth A. Reinert
This revised edition identifies the ways in which globalization can overcome poverty or make it worse. It identifies main global flows and examines how each can contribute to undermine economic development. The book presents policy recommendations to make globalization more effective as a vehicle for shared growth and prosperity.
July 2007
Hardback £55.00
Paperback £24.99
Global Integration and Technology Transfer
Bernard M. Hoekman and Beata Smarzynska Javorcik
'It is a 'must read' for scholars of development and policy makers in governments and multilateral institutions dealing with trade, investment and development.'
- T.N. Srinivasan, Samuel C. Park, Jr. Professor of Economics, Yale University, USA
This book advances our understanding of the importance of technology diffusion through trade and foreign direct investment in a range of developing and transition economies. Addressing the effect of these two channels on productivity growth both at the firm and economy-wide level, it discusses policy interventions used by developing countries to stimulate ITD, ranging from economy-wide educational programs to funding for the creation and acquisition of technology, tax incentives, specific types of intellectual property protection, tariffs on trade, differential taxation, and export promotion schemes.
May 2006
Hardback £63.00
Paperback £27.99
Poverty and the WTO
Impacts of the Doha Development Agenda
L. Alan Winters and Thomas W. Hertel
This book brings together the best scientific methods to bear on this question, taking into account the specific characteristics embodied in the Doha Development Agenda (DDA). Since the trade/poverty field is relatively new, a variety of different methods are utilized to be most appropriate for the varied countries featured. It consistently considers a range of complementary policies that might enhance the poverty outcome of the DDA, permitting poor households to take better advantage of new opportunities that might arise from such multilateral trade reforms. In addition, a fifteen country study, coupled with the global analysis, allows the authors to draw more general conclusions about the poverty impacts of a prospective DDA.
January 2006
Hardback £55.00
Paperback £19.99
Moving Out of Poverty Series 
A new series produced in association with the World Bank
Moving Out of Poverty is a new multivolume set under the editorial direction of Deepa Narayan, Senior Advisor of the World Bank and former director of the path-breaking Voices of the Poor series. It features the results of new comparative research across more than 500 communities in 15 countries to understand how and why people move out of poverty, and presents other work which builds on interdisciplinary and contextually grounded understandings of growth and poverty reduction.
The first volume in the series Moving Out Of Poverty: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives is available now. Click here to find out more about this product or to order a copy.
Other Titles in the Series
Land in Transition
Martin Ravallion and Dominique van de Walle
Services Trade and Development
Edited by: Aaditya Mattoo and Lucy Payton
Safeguards and Antidumping in Latin American Trade Liberalization
Edited by: J. Michael Finger and Julio J. Nogués
Economic Development and Multilateral Trade Cooperation
Edited by: Simon J. Evenett and Bernard M. Hoekman
Agricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development Agenda
Edited by: Kym Anderson and Will Martin
International Migration, Remittance & The Brain Drain
Edited by Maurice Schiff and Çaglar Özden
For more information about these and other World Bank titles please click here or contact Eleanor Russell at e.russell@palgrave.com
